Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-01-29
Current Notes and Comments.

The numerous admirersof Mon
tana great man recently gave him a
recherche dinner. 1t consists of
three courses-hoiled cabbage, prai.
RE dog and whiskey.
Gov. Ross, of Texas, recommends
that the conspiracy laws which have
been used against labor boycotts
shall be made to apply also to rail-
way pools.
1 A citizen of Chicago-Ham by
name--wants to be one Of fifty men
to adopt knee-breeches for constant
wear The other forty nine hang
back.
/ The students at Yale, finding them-
selves unable to go as slow as the
regular course prescribes, havefora-
ed an amatucr dramatic company,
with John Rogers, Jr., and Reginold
Fairfax Harrison, both of New York,
as stars. ss
The Shelbyville (Ind.) Democrat
| favors David b. Hills nomination.
for the presidency in 1883 on the
ground that he is ga full-blooded,
| rock-ribbed, Jacksonian democrat, q
disbeliever in civil service reform, q
| tower of strength against mugwump
persuasions, and a faithful dispenser
of rewards for party services"
The Charleston News and Cou-
rter observes s'The South prospers
as regards cotton because it can make
cotton more cheaply than it can be
made in India. 1t prospers in iron
because it can make iron as cheaply
as it can be made in England. Its
| prosperity is not depending on the
| tariff
Senatorelect Stockbridge, from
Michigan, spent cool 100000 on
his Kalamazoo mansion. Shortly
after its completion he observed to
u friend that the one additional thing
needed was parrot to sit over the
front door and greet him every day
with the remark: Here comes that
fool again."
Lord Brassey writes in the Nine
teenth Century turning from pol
itics to business, an impression pre-
walls that there Is more sharp prac-
tice in the United States than in
other countries. In England there
are not wanting those who would
take advantage ofthe unwary. Dis
honest men only succeed in Ameri-
ca SO long as they are not found out"
III don't carei' exclaimed the
young women behind the counter,
when she heard of the marriage of
an acquaintance to rich codger old
enough to be her father "they
sneer at me because / am sales
lady, but I'd rather be saleslady
than lady that is sold" The Bos-
ton Transcript is entitled to credit
for this, but it is good for any lati
tude.
"You can get pretty fair idea of
the heat of the fight in the Indiana
Legislature, where the parties are
nearly evenly divided,n said a gen.
tleman from Indianapolis in Chica
go last week, "by the fact that when
some of the Assemblymen there
heard that two democratic members
of the Illinois House had died, one
Of them said "the republicans of
Indiana never had any such luck as
that" I verify believe that If a
member Of the Hoosier Legislature
should die tonight the party which
would thus gain an advantage would
fire cannons and get drunk."
| A Massachusetts man, just back
from the West, said the other day {:
~ have been astounded in going
through the western country to note
the remarkable stage Of Improvement
which they have attained. Ii you
get off the cars at any town of 3 900
or 5000 inhabitants or larger you
will find yourself in the midst of a
civilization that is equal to any OF
the great cities Of the East. You
find electric lights, perfect telephone
and telegraph district messenger
service, modern improvements in the
way of sanitary drainage, street cars,
fine public buildings and perfect fire
service. They're way ahead OF New
England towns.n
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